Edmund Law Lushington (10 January 1811 – 13 July 1893) was a classical scholar, a professor of Greek, and Rector of the University of Glasgow.

Life

Edmund Law Lushington was born on 10 January 1811 in Singleton, Lancashire, England. He was the son of

Edmund Henry Lushington Edmund Henry Lushington (11 July 1766 – 27 March 1839) was the second Chief Justice of Ceylon. He was the son of Rev James Lushington of Rodmersham, Kent and his wife Mary Law, the daughter of Edmund Law, Bishop of Carlisle. He became a B ...

of the Inner Temple, a judge in Ceylon, and his wife Sophia Phillips. He was educated at

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and as a Greek scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a close friend of Alfred Lord Tennyson in the late 1820s. A Fellow of Trinity College, Lushington went on to become a professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow (1837–74), where he was also later elected Lord Rector (1884–87). He died at Park House, Maidstone, on 13 July 1893.

Family

On 14 October 1842, he married Cecilia Tennyson, daughter of Reverend George Clayton Tennyson, and younger sister of Alfred Lord Tennyson, in Boxley, Kent, England. To mark the occasion Tennyson wrote as an epilogue to his poem ''In Memoriam'' (1850), an epithalamium (nuptial poem) on Cecilia and Edmund's marriage. Lushingston remained one of Tennyson's closest lifelong friends, as well as being his brother-in-law. He had four children: Edmund ("Eddy"), Cecilia ("Zilly"), Emily ("Emmy"), and Lucy.

Edward Lear Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limerick (poetry), limericks, a form he popularised. ...

made many gifts to the Lushington children included an album containing drawings of birds, animals and landscapes, which he presented to Zilly on her tenth birthday in 1855.

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